Peruniscus cassinensis Whitfield 1886 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae

Alternative combinations: Bellerophon cassinensis, Protowarthia cassinensis, Sinuites cassinensis

Full reference: R. P. Whitfield. 1886. Notice of geological investigations along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, conducted by Prof. H.J. Seely and Pres. Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College, with descriptions of the new fossils discovered. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 1(8):24-35

Belongs to Peruniscus according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Bassler 1915, Ulrich and Scofield 1897 and Whitfield 1886

Sister taxa: Peruniscus macer, Peruniscus pusillus, Peruniscus ramseyensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is 227 - Promonotory on west end of Fort Cassin, Lake Champlain., which is in a Cassinian carbonate limestone in the Fort Cassin Formation of Vermont

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at 227 - Promonotory on west end of Fort Cassin, Lake Champlain.

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